HSA# 557 - BLACK HAWK (WATERLOO), IA-FAYETTE, IA

HSA Profiles

Mortality Rates

Health-Care Providers

Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization

HMOs and HMO Membership

Demographics

Income, Education and Employment

Age-Adjusted Mortality per 100,000 Population, 1996-98
  CHD Stroke AMI CHF
Overall 218.2 74.5 101.5 7.7
Whites 215.8 73.2 99.8 7.7
Blacks 302.8 130.2* 160.1 9.4*
Males 282.3 84.1 129.0 8.6
Females 172.2 67.7 79.8 7.2
White Males 278.6 82.1 127.2 8.7
White Females 170.3 67.1 78.3 7.2
Black Males 459.5 175.1* 170.0* 0.0*
Black Females 223.4 99.6* 146.7* 13.3*

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Health-Care Providers
  Number
Total MDs (1999) 275
MDs with Office-Based Practice (1999) 244
MDs with Hospital-Based Practice (1999) 31
MDs with Primary-Care Specialty (1999) 102
MDs with Ob-Gyn Specialty (1999) 13
MDs with CVD Specialty (1999) 7
DOs with Family-Practice Specialty (1998) 24
Registered Nurses (1990) 1,672
Registered Dieticians (1990) 70

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Short-Term General Hospital Resources and Utilization
  Number
Hospitals (1999) 9
Hospitals with a cardiac intensive care unit (1999) 1
Hospitals that conduct angioplasty (1999) 2
Hospitals with a cardiac catheterization lab (1999) 1
Hospitals with an emergency department (1999) 9
Hospitals that conduct open-heart surgery (1999) 1
Hospitals with a community outreach program (1999) 5
Hospitals that participate in health fairs (1999) 6
Hospitals with a health-information center (1999) 4
Hospitals that conduct health screenings (1999) 9
Hospitals with nutrition programs (1999) 7
Hospitals with a patient-education center (1999) 4
Total admissions (1999) 26,640
Total beds (1999) 872
Cardiac intensive care unit beds (1999) 12
Inpatient days (1999) 185,198
Outpatient visits (1999) 1024578
Emergency Department visits (1999) 76,910

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HMOs and HMO Membership
  Number Membership
Total HMOs (1998) 21 24,052
Traditional HMOs (1998) 2 2,764
IPA HMOs (1998) 6 18,228
Other HMOs (1998) 13 3,060

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Demographics
  Number Percent
Total Population (1999) 213,908 100.0
Nonhispanic Whites (1999) 200,318 93.6
Hispanic Whites (1999) 2,185 1.0
Blacks (1999) 9,338 4.4
American Indian/Eskimo/Aleuts (1999) 309 0.1
Asian/Pacific Islanders (1999) 1,758 0.8
Total Hispanics (1999) 2,400 1.1

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Income, Education and Employment
Avg per capita income (1998) 23,471
Avg median household income (1997) 36,135
Persons in poverty (1997) 23,733
Avg unemployment rate (%), age 16+ (1999) 4
% Persons age 25+ w/<9 yrs education (1990) 10
% Persons age 25+ w/4+ yrs college (1990) 15

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